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Gloria Piedimonte
Gloria Piedimonte (27 May 1955 – 6 January 2022), also known as La Guapa, was an Italian singer, actress, dancer, and television personality. Life and career Piedimonte was born in Mantua on 27 May 1955. After some minor film roles Piedimonte gained some popularity in 1978 appearing in the music show ''Discoring'', in which she danced to the tune of the theme song "Baila Guapa", performed by Bus Connection. In the same year she released two singles, the disco music song "Uno" and the space music song "Ping Pong Space". The following year she starred in her only film as lead actress, ''Baila Guapa''. After appearances in other films and in photonovelas, she brought out one more single in 1983, "Ma che bella serata". In the same period she posed in several hard-core magazines, such as ''Le Ore'' and ''Men'', although not personally involved in sex scenes. In her late years she focused on painting, holding several solo exhibitions. She died from COVID-19 in Mantua on 6 January 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mantua
Mantua ( ; it, Mantova ; Lombard language, Lombard and la, Mantua) is a city and ''comune'' in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the Province of Mantua, province of the same name. In 2016, Mantua was designated as the Italian Capital of Culture. In 2017, it was named as the European Capital of Gastronomy, included in the Eastern Lombardy District (together with the cities of Bergamo, Brescia, and Cremona). In 2008, Mantua's ''centro storico'' (old town) and Sabbioneta were declared by UNESCO to be a World Heritage Site. Mantua's historic power and influence under the Gonzaga family has made it one of the main artistic, culture, cultural, and especially musical hubs of Northern Italy and the country as a whole. Having one of the most splendid courts of Europe of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and early seventeenth centuries. Mantua is noted for its significant role in the history of opera; the city is also known for its architectural treasures and artifacts, elegant palaces, and the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young, Violent, Dangerous
''Young, Violent, Dangerous'' ( it, Liberi armati pericolosi), is a 1976 Italian "poliziottesco" film directed by Romolo Guerrieri. It is based on the short stories "Bravi ragazzi bang bang'' and ''In pineta si uccide meglio'', both included in Giorgio Scerbanenco's short stories collection ''Milano calibro 9''. Plot In Italy, three young men go on a violent crime spree and end up being chased by the police across the country. Cast * Tomas Milian as Commissioner * Stefano Patrizi as Mario * Max Delys as Luis * Benjamin Lev as Giò * Eleonora Giorgi as Lea * Diego Abatantuono as Lucio * Venantino Venantini * Gloria Piedimonte Production ''Young, Violent, Dangerous'' story by Fernando di Leo was based on the short stories of Giorgio Scerbanenco, specifically ''Bravi ragazzi bang bang'' and ''In pineta si uccide meglio'', both included in his short stories collection ''Milano calibro 9''. The film was shot at Elios Film in Milan and on location in Milan and Pavia. Release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durium Records
Durium was an Italian record label, active from 1935 to 1989. Part of the catalogue and the brand were subsequently taken over by Ricordi, who used it for some reissues. Its initial trademark consisted of the writing Durium in block letters, surmounted by the stylisation of three trumpets and an eagle. Immediately after the war, this logo was abandoned to move to the stylisation of a disk with three internal rays crossed by the writing ''Durium'' in italics. History Early years Durium SA was founded in 1935 in Milan (originally as Durium La Voce dell'Impero) by a group of Milanese entrepreneurs including Martinengo and Alberto Airoldi, who became its president. The headquarters were in Corso Garibaldi in Milan and production covered both discs and sound producers. The first records released were recitations of tales for children, and other productions aimed at emigrants and troops abroad. In the years 1935/1936 - lacking the material for the production - discs were also pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baila Guapa
Baila (also known as bayila; from the Portuguese verb ''bailar'', meaning ''to dance'') is a form of music, popular in Sri Lanka and among Goan Catholics. The genre originated centuries ago among the Portuguese Burghers and Sri Lankan Kaffirs. Baila songs are played during parties and weddings in Sri Lanka, Goa, Mangalore and Portugal accompanied by dancing. Baila music, as a form of folk art, has been popular for centuries in Sri Lanka. During the early 1960s, it entered into Sri Lanka's mainstream culture, primarily through the work of police officer turned singer Wally Bastiansz. He began adapting the 6/8 "''kaffirhina''" rhythms to accommodate Sinhala lyrics. By the 1970s musicians, including MS Fernando and Maxwell Mendis, had helped Baila grow into a well known and respected style of Sri Lankan popular music. It is primarily considered dance music. History After their arrival in 1505, the Portuguese began to convert the Sinhalese to Roman Catholicism, building their weal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kriminal Porno
''Kriminal'' is an Italian comics series featuring an eponymous fictional character, created in 1964 by Magnus and Max Bunker, the authors of '' Alan Ford'', '' Maxmagnus'' and ''Satanik''. Characters Kriminal is an English master thief, Anthony Logan, who dresses in black and yellow costume with a fearsome skull face for his adventures. The character was directly inspired by the contemporary (and more successful) Diabolik, with whom he shares the ability to use masks that allow him to assume any identity. In the earliest adventures, Kriminal was a near sadistic killer fighting for revenge against the criminals who had pushed his father to commit suicide. Having also lost his mother and sister, Logan spent his youth in a reformatory, from which he managed to escape, intent to pursue vengeance. Kriminal has a female companion, Lola Hudson whom he married and with whom he had a child, Max. He also has a love-hate relationship with Gloria, who was once the wife of Scotland Yard Ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neri Parenti
Neri Parenti (born 26 April 1950, in Florence) is an Italian film director and writer. He is known for comedy films, including the series starring Paolo Villaggio playing the character Ugo Fantozzi, and a later series of '' cinepanettoni'' - zany comedy films scheduled for release during the Christmas period. Biography After graduating in political science, he dedicated his career to filmmaking. He became a pupil and assistant of Pasquale Festa Campanile from 1972 to 1979, and also worked for Salvatore Samperi, Steno and Giorgio Capitani. In 1979 he directed his first film, '' The Face with Two Left Feet'', an ironic and comical parody of '' Saturday Night Fever'' with John Travolta, which had been a hit two years earlier. A year later he met the film actor and director Paolo Villaggio, who was then filming ''Fantozzi contro tutti''. Villaggio developed an esteem for Parenti and decided to leave the director's chair to join forces with him. The result was very positive and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Face With Two Left Feet
''The Face with Two Left Feet'' ( it, John Travolto... da un insolito destino), also known as ''The Lonely Destiny of John Travolto'', is a 1979 Italian comedy film directed by Neri Parenti. Cast *Giuseppe Spezia as Gianni *Angelo Infanti as Raoul *Gloria Piedimonte as Gloria *Franco Agostini as Alvin *Claudio Bigagli as Claudio *Massimo Giuliani as Massimo *Adriana Russo as Adriana *Massimo Vanni as Paolo *Sonia Viviani as Deborah *Ilona Staller as Ilona *Enzo Cannavale Vincenzo "Enzo" Cannavale (5 April 1928 – 18 March 2011) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films since 1949, including ''Cinema Paradiso'', which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academ ... as Caruso References External links * 1979 films Films directed by Neri Parenti 1970s Italian-language films 1979 comedy films Italian comedy films 1970s Italian films {{1970s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Prosperi
Franco Prosperi (2 September 1926 – 17 October 2004) was an Italian film director and screenwriter, active between the mid-1960s and the early 1980s. Born Francesco Prosperi in Rome, Prosperi began his career as an assistant director with Mario Bava and with whom he also wrote several screenplays. In 1966, he made his directorial debut, credited as Frank Shannon, with the thriller film, ''Tecnica di un omicidio'' and over the years he built a solid reputation as a director of crime-action films. He also occasionally directed comedies (with Lando Buzzanca or Alighiero Noschese) and, in the final stage of his career, at the beginning of the 1980s, several low-budget sword and sorcery films. Selected filmography * ' (1966) * ''Hired Killer'' (1966) * ''Every Man Is My Enemy'' (1967) * ''Ripped Off'' (1971) * ''The Funny Face of the Godfather'' (1973) (parody of ''The Godfather'') * ''Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia'' (1974) * ''Meet Him and Die'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadly Chase (film)
''Deadly Chase'' ( it, Il commissario Verrazzano) is a 1978 Italian film directed by Franco Prosperi. Plot Inspector Verrazzano is joined by the owner of an art gallery, Giulia Medici, who must investigate the death of her brother, whose case was filed a few months earlier as a suicide. Cast *Luc Merenda: Inspector Verrazzano * Janet Agren: Giulia Medici *Luciana Paluzzi: Rosy *María Baxa: Kora Verelli * Patrizia Gori: Giorgia *Daniele Dublino: Inspector Biagi *Giacomo Rizzo: Brigadeer Baldelli *Gloria Piedimonte: Giorgia *Isarco Ravaioli: Alberto Volci aka The Baron *Chris Avram: Marco Verelli *Attilio Dottesio: Notary Bruni Style Despite the films aggressive title, ''Deadly Chase'' was described by Italian film historian Roberto Curti as a film that "moves away from out-and-out ''poliziotteschi'' and its worn out schems and moves closer to the melancholic, contemplative vein of '' film noir''". Production ''Deadly Chase'' was the second of two films directed by Franco P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Svastica Nel Ventre
''Nazi Love Camp 27'' (Italian: ''La svastica nel ventre'') or ''The Swastika on the Belly'' is a 1977 Italian Nazi exploitation film by Italian director Mario Caiano and starring Finnish actress Sirpa Lane. In between brutal depictions of a brothel in a concentration camp and a high-class brothel for leading Nazis, the film partially focuses upon the Lebensborn program and, albeit being generally categorized among erotic films, it is one of the few Nazisploitation films to contain scenes that have been considered hardcore pornography. Plot The film opens with young Jewish girl Hanna and her German boyfriend making love in a field in the days before the outbreak of World War II. Upon the outbreak of war, Hanna and her family are rounded up, but not before her mother is killed trying to defend the family. They are taken to a concentration camp, where Hanna's surviving family is gassed upon arrival. At night, whilst resting in the camp barracks Hanna and a female companion are g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amore All'arrabbiata
Amore is the Italian word for ''"love"''. It may come from Amare which is ''"to love"'' in Latin. People * Alexis Amore, pornographic actress * Eugenio Amore, Italian beach volleyball player * Gianna Amore, Playboy centerfold Film and TV * '' Amore!'', a 1993 American film * ''L'Amore'' (film), 1948 Italian film directed by Roberto Rossellini * ''Amore'' (1936 film), a 1936 Italian film Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia * ''Amore'' (1974 film), a 1974 French film directed by Henry Chapier Music Albums * ''Amore'' (Alessandra Mussolini album), a 1982 album by Alessandra Mussolini * ''Amore'' (Andrea Bocelli album), a 2006 album by classical crossover singer Andrea Bocelli * ''Amore'' (The Hooters album), a 1983 album by ''The Hooters'' * ''Amore'' (Wanda album), 2014 debut album by Austrian band Wanda Songs and compositions *"Amore", 1987 song by BZN *"Amore", 1976 song by Krisma *"Amore", 2016 song by Babymetal from the album ''Metal Resistance'' *"Amore", 2018 song by Pitbull fea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Grieco
Sergio Grieco (13 January 1917 – 30 March 1982) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Biography Sergio's father was the Italian Communist Ruggero Grieco. Grieco first started in film in the Soviet Union in 1931, working as an assistant to Nikolai Ekk on the first Soviet sound film '' Road to Life''. He began his Italian film career as a script supervisor in 1939, working his way up to an assistant director the following year. In 1949 he worked as an assistant to René Clément on his film ''The Walls of Malapaga'' (1949). His directorial debut was ''Il sentiero dell'odio'' (1950), beginning a prolific career in a variety of genres. He met his wife Teresa Terrone (renamed Susan Terry by her agent), who appeared in several of his films, beginning with ''The Mysterious Swordsman''/''Lo spadaccino misterioso'' in 1955. He directed nearly 40 films between 1950 and 1977, often also writing his own screenplays. Grieco is best known for his adventure, swashbuckler, sword ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
